Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine Study
Group, and
Special Presentations
Fall 2008
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place from 4:00 to 6:00 PM
in Room S-050, Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS),
Harvard University, South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
Monday, September 29
Hutsul Highlanders, Poles, and the “Discovery” of the Eastern Carpathians between the Two
World Wars
Patrice Dabrowski, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
Monday, October 6
Art, Life, and Tradition in Viktor Domontovych’s Novel “Bez gruntu”
Taras Koznarsky, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Literature, University of Toronto; Eugene
and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
Monday, October 13
Holiday: Columbus Day. No seminar.
Monday, October 20
Fatherland and Nation in “Istoriia Rusov”: The Interface of Early Modern and Modern Ukrainian
Political Culture
Frank Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Wednesday, October 22
Symposium
Between Moscow and Constantinople, Dependence and Autocephaly: The Orthodox
Church(es) in Ukraine Today
Details forthcoming
Monday, October 27
Which Way Will the Oil Flow? The Odesa-Brody Pipeline, Energy Politics and Policy Indecision in
Ukraine
Margarita Balmaceda, Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow,
Ukrainian Research Institute
Monday, November 3
Title TBA
Olenka Pevny, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Richmond; Eugene and Daymel
Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
Monday, November 10
Holiday: Veterans’ Day. No seminar.
Thursday, November 13
Zenovia Sochor Parry Memorial Lecture
cosponsored with the Fellows Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Title TBA
Anatoliy Grytsenko, Member of Parliament, Ukraine; Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on
National Defense and Security; former Minister of Defense of Ukraine (2005–2007)
Monday, November 17–Tuesday, November 18
Conference
The Great Famine in Ukraine: The Holodomor and Its Consequences, 1933 to the Present
Details forthcoming
Monday, November 24
Title TBA
Liliya Berezhnaya, University of Passau, Germany
Monday, December 1
Cossack Historical Narratives: Visions of the Past and the Construction of Identities in
Eighteenth-Century Ukraine
Andriy Bovgyria, Research Fellow, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute